Burt Lancaster Quotes
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.
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I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
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Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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The last decade has seen a steady increase in the application of concepts from the theory of games to the study of evolution. Fields as diverse as sex ratio theory, animal distribution, contest behaviour and reciprocal altruism have contributed to what is now emerging as a universal way of thinking about phenotypic evolution.
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People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.
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True love, to me, is when she's the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.
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Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.
